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By the way Brady is a small Australian company that hand-builds drums out of native hardwoods. It's kind of cool they read noticed this post and sent me a happy birthday message.

A reviewer suggested an aquarian satin head and canopus vintage dry snare wires on this drum, so I tried and they improved the sound even more. But will any one else notice £50 worth of improvement? I am guessing not.

I think punters or even listeners rarely notice or appreciate tone and how “gear” affects it the way instrumentalists do. How many listeners would be able to tell if a real vintage gibson is being used on a recording instead of a well made copy ?.

But if the player ( you ) really does notice the sonic difference that is arguably going to positively effect how you play, and THAT the punter will hear.

On a related note - i’ve been noticing something of a correlation between atheism ( or to be precise atheist bloggers, personalities ) and “muso"-ness.

Many times i’ve heard of ex christians such as Dan Barker being heavily into the church music thing.

LukeProg at “CommonSenseAtheism” seems to have a very broad and cool taste in music ( dont know if he plays ).

Could there something about the brain of a musician that makes him more likely to be a sceptic ?